End-gate for wagons.



B. M. WILHITE. END GATE FOB WAGONS. APPLICATION FILED JULY 22, 1908.

93.33514, Patented Sept.7, 1909.

e Ti? WITNESSES ATTORNEYS IBERTN-IE M. WIIdI-IITE, OF GORDON, NEBRASKA.

END-GATE ron wneons.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. '7, 1909.

Application filed July 22, 1908. Serial No. 444,747. 1

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTNIE M. WlLHI'lE,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Gordon, in the countyof Sheridan and State of Nebraska, have invented new and usefulImprovements in End-Grates for \Vag- 011s, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide additional features ofimprovement for the end gate for which Letters Patent were granted tome, dated May 19, 1908, and numbered 888,286, whereby portions of theend gate are strengthened and other details rendered more compact andinexpensive.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as is hereinafter described and defined in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side View of the improve- 7 ment applied upon an end gate,shown closed upon the rear end of a wagon body; Fig. 2 is a plan View ofthe parts shown in Fig. .1; Fig. 3 is a sectional plan View, on the line3-3 in Fig. l, perspective view of a detail thatembodies novel featuresof construction.

In the drawings, A represents the rear end of a box body of a freighthauling wagon, consisting, as usual, of a bottom A formed of boards orplanking, and sides A of a similar material.

The end gate whereon the novel features are mounted, is formed of platemetal having parallel upper and lower edges, and a width considerablygreater than is necessary for a closure of the open rear end of thewagon body.

The portion 5 that forms the end gate proper is flat, and has sufficientlength for a lapped engagement of its ends with the rear ends of thesides A and at two points a, which determine the length of the end gate5, the material is bent at right angles in the same direction, thusproducing two integral wings 5 which, in service, loosely contact withthe outer surfaces of the sides A of the wagon body A. The wings 5 aresloped on their free edges b, so as to reduce their width graduallytoward their upper ends, as shown for one wing in Fig. 1.

' provided,

that is secured therein, outside of the gate at each side edge thereandFig. at is an enlarged boxes 9 A feature of the present inventionconsists in the employment of angle iron reinforcing bands 6, that inthis construction are associated in pairs, said bands in duplicate beingso placed as to impinge their outstanding flanges c, 0 upon each other.The bands-in pairs, as described, are bent so as to fit closely upon theexterior surface of the end gate late and the wings thereon. Three pairsof the angle iron bands (5 are and securely aflixed in place upon theend gate and wings by rivets or bolts, one pair of bands being locatedat the lower edge of the end gate and its wings, another pair at theirupper edges and the third pair mldway betweenthe other pairs.

It will be seen that as the ribs formed by the flanges 0, bands arecontinuous from side edge to side edge of the wings if, greater rigidityand strength are conferred by the substitution of the angle iron bandsthat are continuous, for those shown and described in Letters Patent No.888,286. 7

A tubulation cl, formed on the lower transverse edge of the gate 5,receives a shaft 6 said shaft projecting e thereon.

of, providing journals of thebody A two Upon the sides A similar bracketarms 7 are oppositely seflush with the surcured, which are set in theend gate wings face of the bed to permit 5 to freely slide thereover,when said en gate is in closed condition. The bracket arms 7 in thepresent construction are each provided at their lower ends with anoutwardly projecting box bearing 9, which are disposed oppositely at thelower rear corners of the side walls A of the body A, and preferablysaid boxes, that are cylindrical and open on their upper sides, havetheir outer ends closed by transverse walls g, that project radially andform circumferentia flanges thereon. The journal ends 6 of the shaft 6are adapted to seat removably in the and thus afford a rockingconnection for the end gate with the wagon body at its rear end.

A guard plate 8 is secured upon each of the wings 5 near the lower edgesthereof, the rear ends of said plates each terminating in a hook it,that opens upwardly. The hooks h are sufliciently extended rearward topermit the free insertion therein of the cylindrical boxes 9'.

c on the pairs of angle iron Upon each wing at a proper distanceabovethe guard plates 8-, a-latch bar 9. is; pivoted at one end, as shown ati for one latch bar in Fig. 1. Each latch. is farnished with spaced hooknotches m inits lower edge, that are designed for engage;-

ment with a fixed projection from the respective side A of the body A.

A feature of the present improvement consists in the extension of eachbracket arm 7 upward and forward, of sufficient length to adapt it toserve as a keeper plate for the latch bar 9"; and tothis end, a stapleloop 9% is projected outward from each bracket arm near the upper endthereof, through which a respective latch bar is loosely inserted.

It will be seenthat the extension of the bracket arms 7, as indicated at??in Fig; 1, serves to aflord support for the latch hard and perm-itsthe latter to slide through the staple a when theend gate is rockedoutward. On

the upper end of the extension 7 of each bracket arm 7, a dog 0 ispivoted, and in each latch bar a notch m is termed that will receive thelower end, bar of a respective staple loop n when the end gate isclosed, this engagement of the latch bars with the staple loops beingdetach-ably secured by turning each dog 0 so: that its free end bearsn-pon the upper edge of the complementary latch bar.

It will furthermorebe noted that by an engagement of either notch m inthe latch bars 9 that are opposite in pairs, with the staple loops asexplained, the end gate may o be secured at a desired outwardinclination,

or in a horizontal position.

It will be seen that the means for reinforcing the end gate and wings bythe; em-

ployment of angle iron bands in pairs is an ent improvement.

advantageous feature of the present iin= proazement. Furthermore, theformation of the bracket arms 7 with the upward integral extensions; 7',so that said arms serve the two-fold purpose of supporting the end gatefor its rocking adjustment and also for limiting the outward inclinationof said end gate, is an important detail of the pres- Said bracket arms,by

ing trnnnions received the boxes, the

arms having upward, extensions secured to the sides of thewago-n body,loops on the extensions adjacent tothe ends thereof, dogs 1 on theextensions above the loops, a latch bar pivoted to each endrgate wing,extending through the loop, said bars having notches the lower edgethereof for on gagement by the loop, the upper edge being engaged by thedog. r

' In testimony whereof I have signed my 7 name to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses. V V v BERTNIE M. ILHITE;

- Witnesses M. O. HAR'rsooK, FRANK I. LETSON.

